If you subscribe to the "premium" membership @ geocaching.com, you can get both the cache sheets for your PDA based on a query & the GPS coordinates based on the same query: so I have the 500 closest caches I haven't done both downloaded in my GPS & in my PDA. So, if I'm out and about somewhere & I have my GPS along, all those caches are plotted on it, so when I get close to one, I can just drop in and get it. We often use this to break up long car trips.
Josh > -----Original Message----- > From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:59 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: geocaching - the update > > > oooo, good idea with the pda. Hm..... > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Josh Remus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:45 AM > Subject: RE: geocaching - the update > > > > That's exactly what we do. It's amazing how much stuff we bring along - > not > > only bug spray, sun screen, things to leave in caches, but the GPS, the > > digital camera, typically things to drink, etc... Everyone has to carry > > something. And we either print out each cache and bring it > along (when we > > go caching the whole day, we'll create a book of cache printouts) or I > bring > > my PDA along, as I have the 500 closest caches in there in case > we're out > > and about and decide to do one. > > > > Josh > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:43 AM > > > To: CF-Community > > > Subject: Re: geocaching - the update > > > > > > > > > I figure that now that we know "where" it is, we'll probably go > > > back. There > > > was a hint that I couldn't remember, and didn't write down. > When we went > > > back home and looked at the hint, we both said, > "hm.....knowing that we > > > probably could have found it." We also hadn't brought anything to > > > leave. We > > > decided we should put together a little pack of stuff - bug spray, > > > sunscreen, things to leave at the cache, water bottle, pen and paper - > and > > > bring that with us when we go out. So, we were mostly looking at > > > this as our > > > learning experience. > > > > > > -d > > > > > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Josh Remus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 7:24 AM > > > Subject: RE: geocaching - the update > > > > > > > > > > I've always thought caches you couldn't quite find for whatever > > > reason to > > > be > > > > the worst. Not that it's still not worth doing, but it really galls > me, > > > at > > > > least. I was doing one up towards Midland, MI when I was going to a > > > wedding > > > > up there, and it was a multi-cache. At the second stage, > the original > > > > coordinates were badly faded, so someone was nice enough to > > > reprint them. > > > > Except they reprinted them incorrectly. My wife, daughter, and I > spent > > > > about 20 minutes canvassing a privately-owned field when we just > decided > > > > that the coordinates must be wrong, and we didn't want to go back to > the > > > > second stage to see if we could figure out the right ones. We > > > just left. > > > > > > > > Another painful one was a multi-cache where the first 5 were > well-hidden > > > > 35mm film containers. After we finally found all five of > those little > > > > things, we couldn't find the final "normal" cache. Ack. > > > > > > > > Anyway - glad you still enjoyed your first experience despite > > > not finding > > > > the cache. > > > > > > > > Josh > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > > > From: Deanna Schneider [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 8:19 AM > > > > > To: CF-Community > > > > > Subject: geocaching - the update > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well, thanks to the advice of folks on the list, I picked up an > > > > > Etrex Legend > > > > > GPS receiver for my hubby, and we did our first geocache > > > > > yesterday. It was a > > > > > multi-cache and we were half successfully. We > successfully found the > > > park > > > > > and started walking around and figured out that the cache > > > must be right > > > on > > > > > the other side of this creek we were standing next to. Well, > > > that wasn't > > > > > gonna stop us. So, down the bank and up the other side we went > > > > > (luckily for > > > > > us you could just step across the creek at that point). > We found the > > > first > > > > > cache and started heading for the second. Of course, instead > > > of staying > > > on > > > > > the trail where the first cache was we incorrectly surmised > > > that we must > > > > > have to cross the creek again. This time we walked down to a > > > bridge and > > > > > followed another trail that we thought would take us closer > > > to where we > > > > > wanted to go. We got far enough West and realized we were too far > > > > > North. So > > > > > we struck off cross-country, or through the woods, to be more > > > precise. I > > > > > haven't been "in" a forest since I was a kid. I forgot how > > > totally cool > > > it > > > > > is to be under the tree canopy, happening upon little clearings > > > > > and such. We > > > > > even startled a deer. > > > > > > > > > > We eventually found "the spot" and spent about 25 minutes looking > for > > > the > > > > > cache itself. The spot was in a clearing, less than 20 > feet from the > > > trail > > > > > that we didn't take. The prairie grass was really high, > we were both > > > > > sweating, I'd been bitten by a deer fly (which I'm allergic to), > > > > > and our 4.5 > > > > > month old had woken up by now (we'd been carrying him in a sling > > > > > this whole > > > > > time). So, we finally gave up and declared it a fun adventure > > > > > none-the-less. > > > > > We took the trail back out. Muuuuch easier. ;) > > > > > > > > > > Yep. I could get into this geocaching thing. > > > > > > > > > > -d > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > Deanna Schneider > > > > > UWEX-Cooperative Extension > > > > > Interactive Media Developer > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
